Wigan Album

it is so interesting to see the photos of these places as they were. if you go from here - in Bath to Radstock & beyond, you can go through some lovely countryside with gentle slopes & animals grazing, then come home & see photos like this, you realise what can be done.

A poingnant reminder of the beauty that we have lost

fao maggie
radstock was a coal mining district in somerset,it had its own radstock alps.

I am very well aware of the mining history of Radstock & district. There is a lovely museum in the old market hall there. The photos to which I was referring are quite similar to this, but of this area, especially Dunkerton which is a lovely village now, but had all the ugliness that comes from the industry. Michael Eavis - the founder of the Glastonbury festival, when he was young, went to work in Radstock to eke out the family income as the farm was doing poorly.

my apologies

Could someone please give us a clue as to where exactly these photos were taken

photo's taken in Ince near to the grave yard....

is the machine in the foreground the old dragline that was used on william rainford gravel workings ? platt bridge /ince the company was working the area for years .all the lakes over taylors lane was created as a byproduct of the excavations and as i remember was going upuntill 1989ish